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Europe Goes to the Venus - The Journey of Venus Express

Fabrega, J.; Schirmann, T.; McCoy, D. +1 more

On 9th November 2005, a Russian Soyuz-Fregat launcher boosted Venus Express into space from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft reached its final destination 5 months later, on 11th April 2006, after a journey of 440 millions of kilometres in the solar system. It fired its main engine during 49 minutes and slowed down to be capt…